Tag: Social Media
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Growth, Good and Bad
Guest Post Elon Musk isn’t the only one growing interest in a social media platform with a free-for-all, anything goes strategy. Rumble is a video licensing and sharing platform similar to YouTube but with fewer restrictions for content creators and marketed as a politically “neutral” platform. The site was launched in 2013 but has gotten
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Inbound Marketing – It Works
“Inbound marketing” is one of the buzziest of the social media catchphrases, but that’s because it works. I’ve been doing a lot of Web 2.0 and social media for government speaking of late, and all of the leads have come either from social media connections or contacts directly through my web outposts, from inquiries on
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Fall Speaking Schedule
My fall schedule is quite busy, and I’m looking forward to meet many of my social media friends at several upcoming speaking engagements. So you’ll know where to find me: Citizen 2.0 Workshop – Sunday, Sept. 19, 2-4 p.m., Fairfield, CA – I’ll be leading a session on social media for progressive activists and campaign
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Q&A: ‘I See Pictures Everywhere’
Allie Wojtaszek of Edmonton, Alberta, is one of the top members on the social media influence market Empire Avenue, and a prolific photographer. I interview Allie about Empire Avenue and Flickr, where she is ranked as the most influential member on EA.
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San Francisco City Attorney’s Office on Flickr
Today, we opened an official Flickr account for the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where we hope to not only highlight our great city, but also feature photos that illustrate the work of our office, from the hard-fought battle for marriage equality, to City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s anti-gang initiatives.
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Why Twitter’s Gov’t Outreach is a Big Win for the Gov 2.0 Movement
Twitter’s new focus on the politics and policymanking arena is a milestone of which the Government 2.0 movement can be proud.
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It’s About the Network, and Other Notes on Twitter, Business and Gov 2.0
Most of what I’m doing on Twitter on a daily basis is working to build community. I’ve also got several other places where I’m doing similar things, but Twitter is definitely the largest pool where I reach out to new people to grow my personal network and evangelize a vision for government reform through social
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Government Social Media: If You Don’t Want to Engage, Don’t Bother
There has been an unquestionable explosion of government social media use in the last year. Last week, GovTwit, the Twitter directory of government agencies and officials reported 44.9 million followers for the 3,000 IDs it tracks, after starting in 2009 with just a handful of accounts. Still, towns, agencies and leaders not using social media
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My Online Life, In Others’ Words
A few friends in the social media and Gov 2.0 community wrote this week about my actions and thoughts regarding Facebook.
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“Gov 2.0” is Here to Stay
Gov 2.0 is a semantic umbrella for several movements with real muscle: open government (in the sense of transparent decision-making, “sunshine”/”sunlight”); open source software in government; free release of data collected by governments, preferably in machine-readable format; social media in government; collaboration, crowdsourcing and prediction markets in government; and traditional “eGov” online services.